King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Tease New Music Coming This Week

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Prolific Australian psych-rockers King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard appear to have teased a new release set for Feb. 1, which is this Friday. The band took to Twitter on Sunday to post a bizarre set of images with the caption “1/2/19.”

1/2/19 pic.twitter.com/Qo9bkWiMgN
— King Gizzard (@kinggizzardband) January 28, 2019

This hint comes after the band tweeted another, much less cryptic photo of them in the studio last week, saying, “NeW. MuSiC. CoMiNg. SoOn. …”

NeW. MuSiC. CoMiNg. SoOn. .. pic.twitter.com/AmgCP8p9ec
— King Gizzard (@kinggizzardband) January 20, 2019

King Gizzard had a fairly quiet 2018 besides a few vinyl reissues and another successful year of their Melbourne music festival, Gizzfest. However, any time off they had was well-deserved after they put out a whopping five studio albums in 2017 and toured them almost constantly. Their most recent release Gumboot Soup was preceded by Polygondwanaland, and before that they released a jazz-inflected collaborative album with Mild High Club titled Sketches of Brunswick East.

Below, check out the video for “Rattlesnake” off their first album of 2017, Flying Microtonal Banana, along with a 2015 King Gizzard performance from the Paste archives.